Stockwell Day
Stockwell Day, (August 16, 1950), a Canadian politician, was born in Barrie, Ontario.
Day served as a member of the Alberta legislature for the riding of Red Deer North in the between 1986 and 2000. In 1997 he was appointed Provincial Treasurer (Minister of Finance).
On July 8, 2000, Day was elected as the first leader of the Canadian federal political party the Canadian Alliance. He was subsequently elected as MP for the riding of Okanagan-Coquihalla, BC, in September 2000. He attracted attention during his first official news conference by turning up on a Jet Ski wearing a wetsuit.
During the summer of 2001, a split occurred within the party ranks in which Chuck Strahl and Deborah Gray led a group of dissident MPs who split with the Canadian Alliance and sat next to the Tories in the House of Commons. Eventually Day agreed to resign, and following the subsequent leadership contest he was replaced in March 2002 by Stephen Harper.